"Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy has had an abiding interest in extraordinary sports performance and bodily transformations. Golf in the Kingdom, Jacob Atabet, The Future of the Body and In the Zone: Transcendent Experiences in Sport are a few of Murphy's books on the expanded body. Besides exploring extraordinary body states, Mike and his wife Dulce have initiated several programs in citizen diplomacy. Their reciprocal visits with Boris Yeltsin and other Russians could arguably be said to have contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. This year Esalen is sponsoring similar citizen exchanges between the US and China and a Middle East exchange program called The Abrahamic Family Reunion. At this SuperSymposium, Mike and Dulce recounted many stories about their Russian adventures including tales of interactions with US presidents, CIA and KGB agents as well as with many, many ordinary Russian citizens.

 

Reinforcing the Murphys' accounts of their adventures in the Soviet Union, cultural scholar Birgit Menzel, from Mainz, Germany. shared her own research on Russian folk culture, focusing on the Russian mystical tradition of shamans, wandering monks and holy fools as well as describing her studies of contemporary upwellings of esoteric spiritual practices in Russia since the fall of the communist state.
"– Nick Herbert


my books Destiny Matrix and the new one Star Gate have considerable material on Esalen, Michael, Spy Games - tied in with what happened to us in Europe, Dennis Bardens et-al Have you seen Puthoff's video on this?

On May 27, 2011, at 10:26 AM, nick herbert wrote:

hippies was just the sideshow
superpowers was the main event.

On May 27, 2011, at 9:18 AM, JACK SARFATTI wrote:

it would have been appropriate to have invited me and Fred Alan Wolf for the Hippies meeting I think
however, I was in Paris & London then
tell Michael maybe next time
;-)

On May 26, 2011, at 11:21 PM, nick herbert wrote:

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